Our Team
CCFI Academic Director; Associate Professor of Actuarial Finance
Enrico's areas of expertise are risk analysis and asset-liability management, with a focus on applications in the insurance and investment management sectors, as well as the design of predictive analytics and risk management tools for a variety of asset classes. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards for his research on the modelling of non-standard risks and the design of innovative risk transfer solutions promoting financial inclusion and green technology adoption.
Professor of Finance & Economics
Patrick was Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His career began at University of California at Berkeley, then Harvard University, L' Ecole Polytechnique, LSE, l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Princeton University. A graduate of University of Cambridge and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, London School of Economics (PhD) and Co-author of Contract Theory and Credit Markets for the Poor.
Bob Buhr
Honorary Research Fellow
Bob retired in 2017 from a 30-year career as a corporate bond analyst, and now focuses on areas of interest to investors, particularly climate risks and adaptation strategies. He has published numerous ESG and climate-related reports, including on Green Bonds, and, since joining CCFI, climate vulnerable countries and sovereign risks, and firm-based risks relating to climate risk impacts. Bob received a BA from Ithaca College, and a Ph.D. from Brown University.
Research Fellow
Pernille’s primary research interests are models and incentive systems for increasing investments in nature, hereunder private investments. Her area of expertise is green finance, including fixed income instruments (green and sustainable bonds), carbon markets, investor trends and public-private financing of natural capital. She has a particular interest in the forestry, land-use and agriculture sectors. She has worked as an advisor and consultant on climate change, finance and sustainable development for 25 years and is the founder of Blue Maia Ltd. - an advisory firm. Pernille holds a PhD in environmental economics from George Washington University.
Professor of Finance
Marcin's research interests are in investments, information economics, climate risk, financial intermediation, and artificial intelligence. Including pricing of carbon risk, incentives to divest carbon-intensive assets, and the role of global regulation and technological changes therein. Research Associate at the Center for Economic Policy Research, research advisor at the European Central Bank and formerly President of the European Finance Association.
Honorary Research Fellow
Alex has worked with both CCFI and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. His research on long-term scenarios of socio-environmental change, focuses on the energy-land-climate nexus. His work into policy objectives spanning energy use, climate action, agriculture, and conservation uses energy systems and land use models at national to global scales. Previously at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Research Associate
Iva is researcher in sustainable finance investigating how capital markets can address environmental externalities. She is currently finalising a PhD at King’s College London on a full Doctoral Research Scholarship. Concurrently, Iva is a Teaching Fellow at Imperial Business School at masters’ and MBA level. Iva previously worked as a consultant in financial advisory services at Deloitte and in fixed income at Robeco Asset Management.
Senior Teaching Fellow
Anastasiya worked for 10 years as a credit trader at a global investment bank on structured credit products, index ETF, bonds and CDS developing expertise in financial markets and risk management. She worked on green bond market research with Climate Bonds Initiative, and led an ESG portfolio review for a wealth management. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, PhD.
Dr. Raúl Rosales
Senior Executive Fellow
Raúl C. Rosales was instrumental in the launch of the Singapore Green Finance Centre in 2020 and now serves on its management committee. Additionally, he is the strategic engagement lead at King’s College Net Zero Centre and recently assumed the role of Professor of Practice in Net Zero Asset Management within the Department of Engineering. With over 30 years in the financial industry, Raúl has held senior roles, including Senior Banker for Energy at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Global Head of Multilateral Development Banks at BBVA.
Kaveh Salehzadeh-Nobari
Research Associate
Kaveh is a Postdoctoral Researcher, focusing on machine learning, econometrics, and climate-related mathematical finance. He is also a Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science at the London School of Economics. Previously, Kaveh held research roles at Imperial College London and Lancaster University, where he worked on high-dimensional statistics, econometrics, and financial projects, collaborating with institutions like the University of Oxford and the Office for National Statistics.
Ryan Williams
Research Fellow
Ryan Williams is a Research Fellow at the CCFI. He is also currently the Chief Economist at Enoda, an cleantech company based in Edinburgh and serves on the UK’s Regulatory Policy Committee. He was previously a Director at Grant Thornton UK, specialising in energy economics and a Principal at Oxera, where he managed regulatory initiatives across industries like electricity, gas, telecoms, water, and transport. As an academic, Ryan was previously an Associate Professor at at Université Paris Dauphine and at the University of Arizona in the United States. Prior to academia, Ryan worked for PwC.
Benjamin Horton
Visiting Professor
Professor Benjamin Horton is Director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore and a professor at the Asian School of the Environment in Nanyang Technological University (NTU). His research concerns sea-level change, with the aim of understanding and integrating the external and internal mechanisms that have determined sea-level changes in the past, and which will shape such changes in the future. He has won several awards in his career and contributed to both COP26 and IPCC outputs.
Gireesh Shrimali
Honorary Research Fellow
Gireesh Shrimali is the Director of CPI’s India program, and a Fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University. Working to reduce barriers to increase investment for India’s renewable energy targets. Graduate of Stanford University, PhD, University of Minnesota, MS, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), B.Tech.
Robert Ritz
Honorary Research Fellow
Robert Ritz is Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at the University of Cambridge and the Director of its Energy Policy Forum, Senior Research Associate in Economics and Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Robert is an expert on competitive strategy, energy markets, and carbon pricing. He serves as a member of the Academic Panels at the UK’s Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) and Office of Gas & Electricity Markets (Ofgem). His research has been published in leading international journals including the RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and Journal of Financial Intermediation, and he has contributed to the Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization.